Science
I was looking online the other day for some information about the side effects of an anti-depressant called Cymbalta.
This may surprise you, but there is a lot of incorrect information out on the Net. So I was pleased to find that the people who make Cymbalta have their own website. It is very informative. There was even a link to provide an explanation of how the drug works.
I find things like this fascinating, whether I really need to know them or not, so I clicked on the link. I highly recommend that you do this now. Go to this site and look about a third of the way down on the right hand side. Click on the link for “How Cymbalta is believed to work.” There’s a little sort of slide show. Go ahead, do that now, then come back here.
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I realize they don’t know exactly how the drug works. But how does this particular graphic help? Do they think it makes blue and yellow bubbles in your head? Bubbles that eventually run down your spine and are expelled? Would that be a good thing anyway?
The thing is, I just know that someone designed an informative site, and some executives reviewed it and said, “It needs to be more interactive!” Or, perhaps, some Web designer just wanted to show that he knew how to make a cool thing like this. Either way, this just makes them seem kind of silly.
Memoir Update
For those of you who are following my memoir on Partial Recall, I’ve added a new section about my grandparents. If anyone knows how to create a link to a certain part of a page, instead of just to the URL, please send me an email.
Cheers!
Home Remedy
I have a cold and a particularly sore throat.
I’ve read that the best remedy for a cold is rest, and that works out fine for me. Unlike many people (especially many moms) I am perfectly able to rest when I am sick. In fact, I often practice resting just so that I’m in tip-top resting form in the event that I get sick. And it’s a good thing that all my resting skills are well-honed for times like this, when I need to spend the better part of 48 hours on the couch.
Rules
Yesterday I did something I have never done before, and I will probably never do it again.
We had a fundraising event at work for the United Way — sort of a picnic lunch for 1000. Being a manager, I had to sign up to help out, dishing up food or passing out raffle tickets or something. By the time I got the signup sheet, the easy jobs were taken, so I signed up to help with “pineapple bowling.”
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Projects for the Long Weekend
I’ve been writing some heavy memoir stuff lately, and at times like this I feel lucky to live in the internet era, where there you can find pretty much every sort of humor imaginable.
Here’s another one of my current favorites: There I Fixed It This site is a marvelous collection of makeshift solutions to household and automobile repairs or improvements. Some are confusing, some are scary, some are actually rather clever. So, if you have any time left on this long weekend and want to fix something, here are some ideas to get you started.
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